Police blotter

Updated 2:42 pm, Thursday, April 26, 2012

STRATFORD -- A 17-year-old Bridgeport resident was arrested after police found him with a handgun in a car outside the Coleman Brothers Carnival on Saturday, police said.

Stratford police spokesman Lt. Frank Eannotti said members of the Statewide Urban Violence Task Force were assisting Stratford police in identifying gang activity at the carnival at 411 Barnum Ave. Cutoff. Eannotti said the boy, who lives on Williams Street, is a member of Bridgeport's East Side Boyz gang.

When the teen left, police followed him to a vehicle in the parking lot. When he was stopped and searched, they found a loaded semiautomatic pistol, police said.

The driver, 19-year-old Andreas Thompson, of Larkin Court, Stratford, was charged with interfering with police.

The teen was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit and possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle. He was held in lieu of $150,000 bond and scheduled to appear in court on May 2.

In 2010, five juveniles were arrested after as many as 50 youths were involved in a brawl.

Pit bull killed after attacking woman

SHELTON -- A woman who was bitten by a pit bull in a Shelton parking lot Tuesday night was recovering at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Detective Ben Trabka said.

The dog attacked the woman as she was walking to her car near Forrest Parkway and bit her a dozen times, police said. Officers searched the area and remained there overnight, but were unable to find the dog. Wednesday morning, around 11:15, police spotted the animal and tried to capture it, but were forced to shoot and kill it, police said.

A reverse 9-1-1 call had been issued because police said they were concerned about those at several businesses and three nursery schools nearby. Officers feared that the dog would attack again.

The city's animal control department said the pit bull was about 25 pounds and neutered. It had a collar but no tag, and the dog appeared to be undernourished. Officials said they believe the dog had been stray for awhile.

The dog will be tested for rabies. The victim is being treated for rabies as a precaution, the Valley Independent reported.

Trabka told the Valley Independent the dog was shot by Officer William Serrano.

Cops: Man scared young girls

WEST HAVEN -- A 55 year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly jumped from behind a large trash receptacle trying to scare girls.

Police were called to a Main Street building at about 6:30 p.m. on a report that an adult male was chasing children. Sgt. David Tammaro, the department spokesman, said officers found Reinaldo Ortiz attempting to hide behind the building. Ortiz, who lives in the building, told police that he was merely "trying to have fun with the girls," Tammaro said in a news release. Ortiz would wait for pre-teen girls to walk by so he could chase them, police said. Tammaro said Oritz was identified by some of the children and adult witnesses.

Ortiz was charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor and breach of peace. He was held overnight and was to be arraigned later Wednesday at state Superior Court in Milford. Ortiz is on probation on unrelated charges, Tammaro said.

Cops: Woman stole chicken, whiskey

DANBURY -- Police say a drunken woman stumbled into the kitchen of a local bar and tried walking out with nearly $500 worth of chicken and a bottle of Irish whiskey.

According to a police spokesman, shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday, Branden Crutcher, 34, of Fairfield, walked into the kitchen at O'Brien's Sports Pub and Restaurant, 83 Lake Ave., and grabbed "a bag of chicken valued at close to $500."

She also reached for a bottle of Jameson's Irish whiskey, but was stopped by bar staff, said Capt. Thomas Wendel.

Crutcher was charged with criminal trespassing and sixth-degree larceny, according to Wendel. She was held in lieu of $10,000 bond.

Cops: Robber

used fake gun

STRATFORD -- A 23-year-old Stratford man has been arrested after he robbed two people outside of McCoy's Pub on Main Street last weekend, police said.

Joseph Hylinski, of Alfred Court, approached two people as they left the bar, holding what appeared to be a firearm, police spokesman Lt. Frank Eannotti said in a news release. Hylinski took money and two cellphones and fled the area, Eannotti said. He was found by police a short time later and identified by one of the victims.

Eannotti said a fake handgun was found near the scene of the robbery.

Hylinski was charged with first-degree robbery and held in lieu of $25,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in state Superior Court in Bridgeport on May 2.